{"id":4804,"date":"2023-01-16T06:22:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T00:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:30:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T21:00:49","slug":"who-are-the-wagner-group-of-mercenaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/who-are-the-wagner-group-of-mercenaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the Wagner Group of Mercenaries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Wagner Group<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is it?<\/strong> The Wagner Group also known as <strong>PMC Wagner is a Russian paramilitary organization.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Origin<\/strong>: The group is believed to have been <strong>founded in 2014 by a Russian veteran of the Chechen war<\/strong> who so admired Hitler he <strong>named the group after Richard Wagner, the f\u00fchrer&#8217;s favorite composer.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>skull is the symbol of the Wagner Group.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The organization first came to the world&#8217;s attention in 2014, fighting alongside Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.<\/li>\n<li>The organization has also been active across Africa in recent years \u2014 Libya, Sudan, Mozambique, Mali and the Central African Republic.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Today there are thought to be some <strong>10,000 Wagner Group members.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The U.S. government has called Wagner a &#8220;proxy force&#8221; of Russia&#8217;s defense ministry.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What does the term \u2018f\u00fchrer\u2019 mean?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>F\u00fchrer, also spelled Fuehrer <strong>means leader.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a title <strong>used by Adolf Hitler to define his role of absolute authority.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>As early as July 1921 he had declared the F\u00fchrerprinzip (\u201cleader principle\u201d) to be the law of the Nazi Party.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1<strong>)<\/strong>\u00a0Where is Donbas region located?<\/h3>\n<p>The Donetsk and Luhansk regions \u2014 collectively known as the Donbas \u2014 are in eastern Ukraine, near the border with Russia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/wagner-group-chief-yevgeny-prigozhin-using-soledar-discredit-russian-armed-forces-isw-1773885\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Wagner Group Chief Using Soledar To Discredit Russian Armed Forces: ISW<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wagner Group is a  Russian  mercenary group founded in 2014 by a Russian veteran of the Chechen war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}